An historical catechism: containing ingenious answers to many notable questions of several wonderful matters in ancient history. As, What is the opinion of all our historians about the Apple old Mother Eve tempted Adam with. Why the devil should take the shape of a serpent. Of the building of the tower of Babel nine miles round by 500,000 men, who left off confounded in their language. Also serious questions about Sodom and Gomorrah, Noah's Ark and Solomon's Temple. Informing us from scripture, what day that was that the like was never before, nor ever shall be. Likewise giving a full account of the destruction of Jerusalem, and the slaughter of three millions of Jews, and how the remainder were dispersed and scattered over the face of the whole earth. Also Josephus and the Romans account of our Saviour, and the miracles wrought at his birth. Particularly a remarkable story about the great Mogul and a divining ape; with a wonderful apparition that happened at Mahomer's Tomb. The wonderful prophecies of the ten Sybils; and a marvellous relation ... seven sleepers, who slept about 200 years.

Date:

M,DCC,LXXVIII. [1778]